Real Life Stories
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Jim Thomson, Banchory
Scottish father Jim Thomson runs his building business from his home town of Banchory where he is a leading member of the Rotary Club of Banchory Ternan. Along with fellow Rotarians, Jim helped lead fundraising efforts from the Crathes Vintage Car Rally in May 2011 which raised £12,000 for charities including Malaria No More UK.
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Team Stag Challenge
Ian Poulter’s wedding in 2011 presented him and his closest friends with the opportunity to arrange a Stag Party like no other. A regular stag do usually involves getting a group of friends together and going quad-biking, paintballing or out for a night on the town - at least, this is what Ian’s friends had imagined.
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Adwoa Pomea
Village farmer Adwoa works hard to harvest maize, cassava and plantain on her land in Ghana, West Africa.
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Gwynedd Quilters
During 2010, I taught a group of friends patchwork and quilting. We are all family women with everything we could wish for.
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Tesco Global Finance Directors
In early 2010, Tesco Global Finance Directors elected Malaria No More UK as their nominated charity leading to twelve months of fundraising activity across the globe.
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Jo Yirrell
Nothing can ever change my feelings of grief after losing Harry but I know that he would want me to dedicate myself to saving others from malaria.
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Nadeem and Sarah Javaid
Making a donation through our wedding was an easy way of supporting this effort to make Malaria No More and we hope others will do the same.
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Sarah from Surrey
I saw the footage on Sport Relief of how malaria affects communities and families across Africa. I was shocked to see so many children being rushed to hospital because of malaria, and sadly how many of those died because of it.
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Gwynedd 'All Star Brass' concert
On 14 August 2010, Linda Williams and her brother Aled held a concert in memory of former Abergynolwyn Silver band member and friend, Barry Wragg.
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Paul Albrow
In May 2010, I saw my cousin take part in and complete the Great Manchester 10km Run; the challenge of completing the 2011 Run was passed on to me.
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Bonafactious and Valencia Oroses
Parents Bonafactious and Valencia live with their family in rural Namibia. Their home is in an isolated part of the country meaning they are officially some of the ‘hardest to reach’ communities with little access to malaria prevention and treatment support.
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Peter Moszynski
Some years ago when I first went to work in Africa as a wide-eyed novice aid worker, fresh out of college, I had my first close encounter with tropical diseases.
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Chief Nana Oteng Korankye
Local leader, Chief Nana has witnessed the devastating effects of malaria in his community in Ghana where malaria is endemic.
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Mei from Dance2Learn.org
The decision to join the global fight against malaria was made when I heard the Senegalese musician, Youssou N’Dour, talking on the radio about how he was helping to end suffering and death caused by the disease.
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James Eley
How would you fancy jumping out of an aeroplane at 13,000 feet with one of the Parachute Regiment’s famous Red Devils strapped to your back?
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Gracie Connett
When I came downstairs late one night my Mum and Dad were watching Comic Relief on telly. I saw that there were babies with malaria. The babies were just lying there with no mosquito nets.
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Musa Sanyang
I came from a very poor background from a village in the Gambia. My parents were subsistence farmers, my father planted ground nut during the raining season and my mum, who died about 9 years ago after a complication with malaria, used to work on the rice field during the same period; my family had no other source of income.
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Marta Phillemon
Marta is a young Mum and lives with her family of five in Namibia. Their rural home setting means they are some of the most remote and hardest to reach communities with little access to malaria prevention and treatment support.
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Mamas Otsieditse and Amos
If you are a volunteer health worker in Botswana, you’re also a life saver. ‘Mamas’ Otsieditse and Amos volunteer in their local community to raise vital awareness about the life threatening dangers of malaria and how to prevent it.
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Queen Mother Mana Afua Fionkobei
Community figurehead Mana is married to the Chief of Apenten Village and known as the ‘Queen Mother’.
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Shoshana Court
In January, when I came to Sekondi/Takoradi on the West Coast of Ghana, I was so excited!
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Talata Mohammed
Working mum Talata Mohammed lives in central Ghana’s Ashanti region with her family including three adults and four children ages one, two, five and 10. Talata is a farmer and earns her living from crops she grows and sells locally.
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Doreen Tetteh
New Mum Doreen and her husband live with their six month old baby boy, John, in Ghana, a country where 100% of the population are at risk from malaria.
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Morwenna Cross
A motor-racing enthusiast, Morwenna opted to join the fight against malaria after seeing David Brabham’s Highcroft Racing car decorated with the Malaria No More logo at the Le Mans race in 2010.
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Kedibonye Motlalepula
Mum of three Kedibonye often worries about whether her children will catch malaria. Two of them are under five years old and therefore at heightened risk from severe malaria – which can be deadly in young children.
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Adrian Siebo – Enrolled Nurse, Lisikili Clinic, Namibia
Adrian, 24, is currently the only nurse at Lisikili Primary Health Clinic in Kabbe Constituency, Caprivim. There should be two nurses at the clinic but one of the posts is vacant. Annemarie Meyer, our Programme and Policy Manager, met Adrian at his clean, neat clinic in October 2011, after he had finished with the 40 or so patients he had seen that day
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Clair Drage
Clair completed two impressive feats of endurance within the space of a month to raise funds for the fight against malaria.
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Dinah Hawes
Dinah decided to join the fight against malaria when she saw a Comic Relief programme on TV about the devastating effects of malaria throughout Africa. She was struck by the fact that just £5 is enough to buy, deliver and hang a mosquito net to protect a mother and child from malaria for up to five years.
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Geoffrey Baines
I was inspired to contact Malaria No More UK after hearing Jo Yirrell on the radio one morning explaining how she lost her son, Harry, to malaria.
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Ketsholike Monginya
Parenting in Botswana is tough, especially when you run the daily risk of contracting a life threatening disease. Father of six and full time farmer Ketsholikei has got used to battling with malaria and although only 26, he has contracted malaria three times in recent years.
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Edward Ahima Botwe
Dad-of-six Edward knows all about the dangers of malaria having seen each of his children suffer from the disease in recent years.
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Rra Poroto
Okavango Region of Botswana, a country that has cut malaria cases by more than half in the last decade. He’s been championing malaria education campaigns as part of a malaria prevention programme that we helped fund last year, thanks to your support.
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Baker Hughes IT Team
Eight members of the Baker Hughes IT team completed the UK Three Peaks Challenge over the weekend of 6/7 August
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Joanna Awuku Gyan
Community Nurse Joanna works on the frontline fighting malaria in Ghana, where malaria claims more lives of young children than any other single disease.
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Jemma Berwick
Jemma Berwick suffered from the deadliest form of malaria when volunteering in a children’s hospital in Ghana.
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Helvi Kashuku, Field Worker
Helvi is an experienced 34 year old field worker with the Malaria No More UK supported malaria prevention programme in northern Namibia. She is motivated by her own personal experience of malaria, having seen her 12 year old brother suffer from the disease and spend time in hospital
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Clair Drage
Clair completed two impressive feats of endurance within the space of a month to raise funds for the fight against malaria.
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Jemma Berwick
Jemma Berwick suffered from the deadliest form of malaria when volunteering in a children’s hospital in Ghana.
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Mei from Dance2Learn.org
The decision to join the global fight against malaria was made when I heard the Senegalese musician, Youssou N’Dour, talking on the radio about how he was helping to end suffering and death caused by the disease.
-
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Baker Hughes IT Team
Eight members of the Baker Hughes IT team completed the UK Three Peaks Challenge over the weekend of 6/7 August
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Dinah Hawes
Dinah decided to join the fight against malaria when she saw a Comic Relief programme on TV about the devastating effects of malaria throughout Africa. She was struck by the fact that just £5 is enough to buy, deliver and hang a mosquito net to protect a mother and child from malaria for up to five years.
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Geoffrey Baines
I was inspired to contact Malaria No More UK after hearing Jo Yirrell on the radio one morning explaining how she lost her son, Harry, to malaria.
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Gracie Connett
When I came downstairs late one night my Mum and Dad were watching Comic Relief on telly. I saw that there were babies with malaria. The babies were just lying there with no mosquito nets.
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Gwynedd 'All Star Brass' concert
On 14 August 2010, Linda Williams and her brother Aled held a concert in memory of former Abergynolwyn Silver band member and friend, Barry Wragg.
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Gwynedd Quilters
During 2010, I taught a group of friends patchwork and quilting. We are all family women with everything we could wish for.
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James Eley
How would you fancy jumping out of an aeroplane at 13,000 feet with one of the Parachute Regiment’s famous Red Devils strapped to your back?
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Jim Thomson, Banchory
Scottish father Jim Thomson runs his building business from his home town of Banchory where he is a leading member of the Rotary Club of Banchory Ternan. Along with fellow Rotarians, Jim helped lead fundraising efforts from the Crathes Vintage Car Rally in May 2011 which raised £12,000 for charities including Malaria No More UK.
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Morwenna Cross
A motor-racing enthusiast, Morwenna opted to join the fight against malaria after seeing David Brabham’s Highcroft Racing car decorated with the Malaria No More logo at the Le Mans race in 2010.
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Nadeem and Sarah Javaid
Making a donation through our wedding was an easy way of supporting this effort to make Malaria No More and we hope others will do the same.
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Paul Albrow
In May 2010, I saw my cousin take part in and complete the Great Manchester 10km Run; the challenge of completing the 2011 Run was passed on to me.
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Sarah from Surrey
I saw the footage on Sport Relief of how malaria affects communities and families across Africa. I was shocked to see so many children being rushed to hospital because of malaria, and sadly how many of those died because of it.
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Team Stag Challenge
Ian Poulter’s wedding in 2011 presented him and his closest friends with the opportunity to arrange a Stag Party like no other. A regular stag do usually involves getting a group of friends together and going quad-biking, paintballing or out for a night on the town - at least, this is what Ian’s friends had imagined.
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Tesco Global Finance Directors
In early 2010, Tesco Global Finance Directors elected Malaria No More UK as their nominated charity leading to twelve months of fundraising activity across the globe.
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Jo Yirrell
Nothing can ever change my feelings of grief after losing Harry but I know that he would want me to dedicate myself to saving others from malaria.
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Musa Sanyang
I came from a very poor background from a village in the Gambia. My parents were subsistence farmers, my father planted ground nut during the raining season and my mum, who died about 9 years ago after a complication with malaria, used to work on the rice field during the same period; my family had no other source of income.
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Peter Moszynski
Some years ago when I first went to work in Africa as a wide-eyed novice aid worker, fresh out of college, I had my first close encounter with tropical diseases.
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-
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Kedibonye Motlalepula
Mum of three Kedibonye often worries about whether her children will catch malaria. Two of them are under five years old and therefore at heightened risk from severe malaria – which can be deadly in young children.
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Ketsholike Monginya
Parenting in Botswana is tough, especially when you run the daily risk of contracting a life threatening disease. Father of six and full time farmer Ketsholikei has got used to battling with malaria and although only 26, he has contracted malaria three times in recent years.
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Mamas Otsieditse and Amos
If you are a volunteer health worker in Botswana, you’re also a life saver. ‘Mamas’ Otsieditse and Amos volunteer in their local community to raise vital awareness about the life threatening dangers of malaria and how to prevent it.
-
Rra Poroto
Okavango Region of Botswana, a country that has cut malaria cases by more than half in the last decade. He’s been championing malaria education campaigns as part of a malaria prevention programme that we helped fund last year, thanks to your support.
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Adwoa Pomea
Village farmer Adwoa works hard to harvest maize, cassava and plantain on her land in Ghana, West Africa.
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Chief Nana Oteng Korankye
Local leader, Chief Nana has witnessed the devastating effects of malaria in his community in Ghana where malaria is endemic.
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Doreen Tetteh
New Mum Doreen and her husband live with their six month old baby boy, John, in Ghana, a country where 100% of the population are at risk from malaria.
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Edward Ahima Botwe
Dad-of-six Edward knows all about the dangers of malaria having seen each of his children suffer from the disease in recent years.
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Joanna Awuku Gyan
Community Nurse Joanna works on the frontline fighting malaria in Ghana, where malaria claims more lives of young children than any other single disease.
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Queen Mother Mana Afua Fionkobei
Community figurehead Mana is married to the Chief of Apenten Village and known as the ‘Queen Mother’.
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Shoshana Court
In January, when I came to Sekondi/Takoradi on the West Coast of Ghana, I was so excited!
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Talata Mohammed
Working mum Talata Mohammed lives in central Ghana’s Ashanti region with her family including three adults and four children ages one, two, five and 10. Talata is a farmer and earns her living from crops she grows and sells locally.
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Bonafactious and Valencia Oroses
Parents Bonafactious and Valencia live with their family in rural Namibia. Their home is in an isolated part of the country meaning they are officially some of the ‘hardest to reach’ communities with little access to malaria prevention and treatment support.
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Adrian Siebo – Enrolled Nurse, Lisikili Clinic, Namibia
Adrian, 24, is currently the only nurse at Lisikili Primary Health Clinic in Kabbe Constituency, Caprivim. There should be two nurses at the clinic but one of the posts is vacant. Annemarie Meyer, our Programme and Policy Manager, met Adrian at his clean, neat clinic in October 2011, after he had finished with the 40 or so patients he had seen that day
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Helvi Kashuku, Field Worker
Helvi is an experienced 34 year old field worker with the Malaria No More UK supported malaria prevention programme in northern Namibia. She is motivated by her own personal experience of malaria, having seen her 12 year old brother suffer from the disease and spend time in hospital
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Marta Phillemon
Marta is a young Mum and lives with her family of five in Namibia. Their rural home setting means they are some of the most remote and hardest to reach communities with little access to malaria prevention and treatment support.
